Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 12:43 PM
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Happy New Month September Prayer.
O Lord...
Happy New Month September Prayer.
O Lord Jesus, Thank You for this brand new month to know You more and serve You more! We are excited for what lies ahead, this new beginning of a new month....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 04:58 AM
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Today's Thought - September
September 1
People just want to know that they matter.
~Oprah Winfrey
In recovery, we do service work. Service work should not just be seen as helping the still-suffering addict, though we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-31-2024, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 31
Why do I feel so lonely all the...
August 31
Why do I feel so lonely all the time? I just can't figure it out.
~LaVonne D.
Loneliness is part of the human condition, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with whether we’re...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-31-2024, 07:18 AM
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Daily Motivator - September
September 1
One of those days
Is today really one of those days when nothing goes your way, when not much gets done? Or is that just what you’re telling yourself?
In fact, it’s not the day...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-31-2024, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 31
Bring your best
Do you ever...
August 31
Bring your best
Do you ever find yourself, while in the middle of an activity, wanting to get it over with as soon as possible? Do you then move on to whatever is next and find...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
08-30-2024, 09:41 AM
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The Experts
There are no guru's. No one person that's in charge, or anyone for us to put on a pedestal as being better than the rest of us. In an absolute sense there are no experts here in recovery, only those...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-30-2024, 04:09 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 30
Moving Forward
Much as we...
August 30
Moving Forward
Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-30-2024, 04:04 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 30
Strength rises up
Cheap...
August 30
Strength rises up
Cheap thrills cannot take the place of deep, abiding purpose. Discrete transactions are a poor substitute for enduring relationships.
The opportunities that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-29-2024, 05:43 AM
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Views: 13,916
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-29-2024, 05:29 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 29
Live the peace
Step away from...
August 29
Live the peace
Step away from the noise and the drama. Take a deep, refreshing breath, and allow peace to fill your awareness.
Much of what you’re normally forced to notice is not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-28-2024, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 28
Let's place principles above...
August 28
Let's place principles above personalities.
We don't like everyone. Even the people we place on pedestals don't like everyone. But whom we like or dislike matters less than our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-28-2024, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 28
Stop short of overthinking
...
August 28
Stop short of overthinking
Think about the questions and dilemmas that confront you, but be careful not to overthink. If you think too much you might think yourself right on past the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-27-2024, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 27
Reflection for the Day
If we...
August 27
Reflection for the Day
If we don't want to slip, we'll avoid slippery places. For the addict, that means avoiding people who used to provide substances; for the alcoholic, that means...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-27-2024, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 27
Your actions
Every action has...
August 27
Your actions
Every action has consequences. To improve your consequences, adjust your actions.
Sometimes it’s obvious what results your actions will cause. Other times, it can be...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-26-2024, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-26-2024, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 26
Building a Framework for Recovery ...
August 26
Building a Framework for Recovery
As I've changed, so has my support system. It's about what and who is helping me grow. I didn't use around my family members, so they didn't see the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-26-2024, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 26
Little things
If you allow...
August 26
Little things
If you allow the little things to get you down, then you give the big things the power to overwhelm you. By constantly complaining about minor problems, you compromise...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-25-2024, 05:38 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-25-2024, 04:41 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - September
September 1
Daily Reflections
WILLINGNESS TO GROW
If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on.
As Bill Sees It, p.8
Sobriety fills the painful "hole in the soul" that my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-25-2024, 03:27 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 25
Living today
Sometimes we...
August 25
Living today
Sometimes we expect so much so fast that we become nervous wrecks. Expecting answers for tomorrow's or next week's problem is not living today.
If we have a problem...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-24-2024, 06:21 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 24
Recovery Is a Process,
Not an...
August 24
Recovery Is a Process,
Not an Event
I write and talk about how recovery is an ongoing process because it really is worth repeating. Take away the fact that our lives are complicated...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-24-2024, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 25
As it all unfolds
You’d like...
August 25
As it all unfolds
You’d like to find out how the story ends. But if you simply skip to the end, you miss the heart of that story.
It’s good to have matters resolved. Yet it takes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-24-2024, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 24
Appreciate your habits
A...
August 24
Appreciate your habits
A habit is something you do almost without thinking. Even so, in order to make sure you maintain the habit, it’s good to regularly think about it.
You get...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-23-2024, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 23
I have never for one instant seen...
August 23
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
~Maurice Maeterlinck
We have been given the job of getting to know...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-23-2024, 04:59 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 23
Good thoughts
An intuition is...
August 23
Good thoughts
An intuition is nothing particularly mysterious. It’s a thought that has more depth than you’re able to recognize.
Much of your thinking is explicit and intentional....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-22-2024, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 22
Skill to do comes of doing.
...
August 22
Skill to do comes of doing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often, we just want to sit and do nothing. And why not? We go to meetings, work the Twelve Steps, read, make new friends. All this...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-21-2024, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
August 21: When you feel lost and not yourself,...
August 21: When you feel lost and not yourself, be assured that this is a transitional phase. I am still the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and I hold you in the hollow of My hand. Nothing in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-21-2024, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,029
August 31
Daily Reflections
A UNIQUE...
August 31
Daily Reflections
A UNIQUE PROGRAM
Alcoholics Anonymous will never have a professional class. We
have gained some understanding of the ancient words "Freely ye
have received,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-21-2024, 06:12 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,029
August 30
Daily Reflections
THE ONLY...
August 30
Daily Reflections
THE ONLY REQUIREMENT. . .
"At one time. . .every A.A. group had many membership rules.
Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would
capsize the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-21-2024, 06:11 AM
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Views: 19,029
August 29
Daily Reflections
I CHOOSE...
August 29
Daily Reflections
I CHOOSE ANONYMITY
We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the
greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have.
12 & 12, p.187
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
08-20-2024, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 706
Having This
As this progresses inside of all us things will become increasingly unbearable to the point where all of us will wish to no longer be alive anymore. When we reach that place it has nothing to do with...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-20-2024, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-20-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 20
AA Thought for the Day
We who...
August 20
AA Thought for the Day
We who have learned to put our drinking problem in God's hands can help others to do so. We can be used as a connection between an alcoholic's need and God's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-20-2024, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 20
Ask more of yourself
Lead...
August 20
Ask more of yourself
Lead yourself into activities that challenge you, intellectually, physically, socially, philosophically, spiritually. Spend time in ways that stimulate the whole...
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Forum: New Member Check In
08-19-2024, 07:21 PM
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Replies: 1,007
Views: 313,156
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Forum: New Member Check In
08-19-2024, 06:05 PM
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Replies: 1,007
Views: 313,156
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-19-2024, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-19-2024, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 19
Until you make peace with who you...
August 19
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
~Doris Mortman
Marketers call us consumers. Ads suggest that a new car will make us happy or that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-19-2024, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 19
Appreciate what’s good
There...
August 19
Appreciate what’s good
There are worse places you could be. There are worse times you could live in.
This day has challenges, this world has problems. Value and appreciate it all...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-18-2024, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-18-2024, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,029
August 28
Daily Reflections
LIGHTENING...
August 28
Daily Reflections
LIGHTENING THE BURDEN
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very
thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. . . . the
dark past is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-18-2024, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,029
August 27
Daily Reflections
CENTERING...
August 27
Daily Reflections
CENTERING OUR THOUGHTS
When World War II broke out, our A.A. dependence on a Higher
Power had its first major test. A.A.'s entered the services and
were scattered...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-18-2024, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,029
August 26
Daily Reflections
GIVING IT...
August 26
Daily Reflections
GIVING IT AWAY
Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would
remain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcended
by the happiness...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
08-18-2024, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 19,029
August 25
Daily Reflections
THE GIFT OF...
August 25
Daily Reflections
THE GIFT OF BONDING
Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 63
Many times in my alcoholic state, I drank...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-18-2024, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 13,916
August 18
Establishing goals and following...
August 18
Establishing goals and following through on them help women build self-confidence.
~Sharon Walters
Alcohol and other drugs created the illusion of confidence for many of us before...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-17-2024, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
August 17: Breakthrough for you will come as a...
August 17: Breakthrough for you will come as a trickling stream instead of a roaring river. Your proverbial mantra will be: slow and steady, slow and steady. Take life as it comes; you cannot rush...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-17-2024, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 12,090
August 18
Ideal day
It would be nice to...
August 18
Ideal day
It would be nice to live your ideal day, but that’s probably not the one you have right now. What you have is the day that’s here.
And although today may fall short of...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
08-16-2024, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 889
Paying The Price
For so long now all of us have wanted to be the exceptions to the rule. We've all longed for that badly needed break that never comes our way to any of us. This is because there is no escaping paying...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-16-2024, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
August 16: When you are worn out with fear and...
August 16: When you are worn out with fear and worry, remember that I am with you to show you the way out of the darkness into My glorious light. Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-15-2024, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,594
August 15: Be patient and remain diligent. The...
August 15: Be patient and remain diligent. The issues you have been dealing with seem to have no resolution, but you are making progress. Do not give up or lose hope, but rather keep your faith...
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